Module install issue

PeeLoo has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Greetings Monks - I'm hoping to benefit from your wisdom.

While trying to install module Chart::Clicker, we get the following error with Cairo:

Package cairo was not found in the pkg-config search path.
Perhaps you should add the directory containing `cairo.pc'
to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
No package 'cairo' found
at Makefile.PL line 99
*** can not find package cairo >= 1.0.0
*** check that it is properly installed and available in PKG_CONFIG_PA
+TH
at Makefile.PL line 99
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I'm confused by what I'm seeing. Is this saying Cairo (upper case) can't install because 'cairo' (lower case) can't be found? pkg-config doco didn't help much - does it want me to create the .pc file based upon what's README says?

I had no issue installing this module on a linux box using CPAN (the above is occurring under UNIX). PERL 5.14.2, BTW.

This also bombs when attempting automated CPAN install.

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Re: Module install issue - Cairo by syphilis (Archbishop) on Jun 08, 2013 at 09:23 UTC
Is this saying Cairo (upper case) can't install because 'cairo' (lower case) can't be found? That's correct - 'cairo' (lower case) is the C library that needs to be found. does it want me to create the .pc file No - the .pc file will be created when 'cairo' is installed. If it's just a problem of pkg-config not knowing where this .pc file is located, set the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable to its location. Cheers, Rob	[reply]
Re^2: Module install issue - Cairo by PeeLoo (Initiate) on Jul 17, 2013 at 20:31 UTC
Thanks for the replies - they were helpful. Unfortunately, I have another issue. I decided to install Cairo, manually, in a non-standard location - ~/lib. When trying to create the makefile, I got an expected dependency error (I want to take all the steps). After installing that dependency (ExtUtils-Depends) then trying the MakeMaker step for Cairo again, I get the same dependency error. Prior to this I made sure @INC had ~/lib as the first entry. What confuses me is that the dependency is not only at that location, it's at others along @INC. Apparently this works differently than I think. Please help!	[reply]
Re^3: Module install issue - Cairo by Anonymous Monk on Jul 18, 2013 at 03:59 UTC
... You did what? Did you export PERL5LIB=extra:inc:paths?	[reply]
Re: Module install issue - Cairo (libcairo) by Anonymous Monk on Jun 07, 2013 at 18:19 UTC
http://cpansearch.perl.org/src/XAOC/Cairo-1.103/README Perl bindings to the cairo graphics library (http://www.cairographics.org). http://www.cairographics.org says sudo apt-get install libcairo2-dev or sudo yum install cairo-devel After which you can use cpan Cairo	[reply]